Upon arriving I introduced myself to a Mozillan Gerv and
we had a varied discussion from Bugzilla to the
Mongol Rally. Bugzilla definitely looks like the
premier BTS right now. It's frankly insane I have to use
Redmine at work. :/

Once the room opened I must have spent the next two hours working out how to
connect to the Ravensbourne wireless.

The /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf snippet that had me connected for minutes at a
time was:

I don't know if this a ja.net requirement or not, but I
must say I was fucking seething. Why does it have to be so hard to get
Internet? :( Unfortunately my Vodafone SIM was only giving me GPRS, so I
couldn't tether.

Hosted apps are what I like to think of shortcuts to a Web application

Next I was very impressed by Paul Rouget,
who came across as a very competent hacker. The Audio API and other demos
looked great. Later at the pub he was talking about his slide
software which can control what other people
see. Must look into that. :-)

There was really quite a good representation of Mozillans, fellow Durbanite
cyberdees was around and two on my table,
Patrick Finch a UK expat in Sweden and the Romanian
@irinasandu. I did try Firefox on my
Android Nexus S and that turned out
to be a embarrassing waste of time. It's practically unusable and I'm worried
for Mozilla because their mobile ports suck so bad.

Thankfully there was lunch and I met Kiwi
@toni_b who seemed sane. I am not sure. She
told me I'd like Wellington if I like wind and earthquakes. Gulp.

After lunch I attended two great break out sessions. The fantastically
eccentric Simon Stewart gave a great talk about
"regression testing" with selenium or selenium2 or WebDiver. I asked several
questions and he answered them well. What a great guy. :) Importantly for my
own ego, the approach I was taking in my own testing at
BONDI & WAC didn't
seem so bad.

Next I accidentally found myself listening to the Dos and Don'ts of the mobile
Web thinking this would be a waste of time. I was surprised to hear a familiar
sounding name "Staikos". Turns out Matthew Staikos, brother of George Staikos
of Torch mobile was speaking! Holy cow! RIM have
sent one of the the real webkit browser guys! His talk was great (avoid
position fixed was a key take away, a problem I've seen with Opera) and I want
to give WebWorks a whirl, however there doesn't seem to be an SDK for Linux. :(

The final panel discussion was good, I asked a general question about which
features are typically not enabled on mobiles. The best question IMO came from
@pornelski, who asked why didn't RIM, Chrome
& Firefox use the W3C widget packaging format. Opera of course already use the
format, because as Chris Mills mentions, they wrote it. ;) IIRC RIM/Chrome
dodged the question whilst Paul Rouget from Firefox was saying the standard
needed more, which I was surprised to hear. I expected him to say, Firefox
extensions came first or something. ;)

Later I went to a pub for a swift pint of ale to shockingly see Ireland beating
England at rugby. Oh well. @pornelski and @ernesto_jimenez were trying to
convince me node.js is a good idea.
cramforce tried
earlier in the day and scared me with his "10x the amount of code" statement. I
was not impressed by "coffee script" generation of Javascript and the callback
orientated code. A sloccount of Node.js suggests 337k SLOC. Hmm, no thanks
guys!! Nonetheless I must give Server sent
events a whirl real
soon now, hopefully on http://greptweet.com/ to make the feedback sane.

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